SACRAMENTO, California, February 7, 2024 – The Libertarian Party of California (LPCA) announced that Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein will be participating in a presidential candidate panel at the Libertarian Party of California’s Annual Convention, alongside Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Libertarian Party presidential candidates Dr. Michael Rectenwald and Dr. Mike…
SACRAMENTO, California, January 30, 2024 – The Libertarian Party of California (LPCA) announced that Independent presidential candidate, Dr. Cornel West, will be participating in a presidential candidate panel at the Libertarian Party of California’s Annual Convention, alongside Libertarian Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Jacob Hornberger. Earlier this month, the LPCA announced that Mr. Robert F. Kennedy…
RFK Jr. to participate in POTUS Candidate Panel and as Guest Speaker SACRAMENTO, California, January 9, 2024 – The Libertarian Party of California (LPCA) announced that Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be a guest speaker at the Libertarian Party of California’s annual convention, and will also be participating in the POTUS Candidate…
The Libertarian Party of California has joined ProRep Coalition, a new nonprofit advocating for major electoral reform in the Golden State. SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, September 7, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — As the Democratic and Republican parties gear up for another divisive election cycle, the Libertarian Party of California has joined a fast-growing coalition of advocacy organizations…
SACRAMENTO, California – The Libertarian Party of California condemns Governor Newsom’s proposal to add a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution for the sole purpose to rescind natural rights embedded in the fabric of our nation and as a foundation of American Liberty. Resolution: WHEREAS the Libertarian Party of California condemns the addition of any…
Betz Stump, LPC, July 2021 This November, California will see a historic recall election of Gavin Newsom. To initiate a special election, approximately 1.5 million valid voter signatures, or 12 percent of registered California voters, are required. With 2.1 million signatures, Gavin’s recall election garnered over 600,000 more signatures than the minimum. What you may…
Howard Iten is a retired auto-mechanic and Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam. After nearly three decades of serving the Lawndale community with his auto-mechanic business, he likely never thought he’d be in a Federal legal battle at the forefront of government overreach. In Howard Iten v. County of Los Angeles, currently on the…
Are the duopolistic-types worried about the Libertarian Movement? Were Brian Holtz’s Libertarian election signs vandalized by liberty-fearing Republicans or Democrat neighbors? See the YouTube video! Meet Libertarian candidate Brian Holtz, who is serving his fourth term on the Purissima Water District Board of Los Altos Hills, CA. In an interview with The Beacon, Holtz shared…
Wendy Hewitt, Bob Karwin and Kalish Morrow speak out about winning, challenges and the future of libertarianism in California Peter Moulds, LPC, February 2021 Last November, California led the country in electing Libertarians for office. Although California has the largest population of any state, our achievement of six elected Libertarians is well beyond the expected…
By Joey Marra 1972 A new FCC ruling extends “equal time” provisions to presidential debates. As a matter of practicality, this largely necessitates presidential debates be hosted by a neutral third-party. 1976 The nonpartisan League of Women Voters (LWV) steps in to be that neutral party and to ultimately host the first televised presidential debate…
By Betz Stump, LPC, September 2020 The Beacon readers met many of our candidates in our May issue. In this issue, we’d like to introduce you to additional candidates that you haven’t met and update you on the ones you met before. Kalish Morrow: Hanford City Council District B I am an activist, ran…
One of the most important guiding principles for Libertarians is the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP). This principle is often used as the highest authority for guiding our ethics and morals. For anyone that is not familiar with the NAP, it is the idea that an individual is free to live their life how they wish until…
By Joe Dehn, Santa Clara County Chair, September 2020 Every four years we hear the advice about voting for president — don’t waste your vote! What does this really mean? The starting point in answering this question has to be: What is your vote for? Is its main purpose to say which candidate you prefer?…
We have several Libertarian candidates that will be on the November ballot who made it through the March 3rd California Primary, some who won through a write-in campaign. Meet some of these candidates in their own words, and learn more about them through this month’s profile. State Senate District 9: Jamie Dluzak Map of State…
A month ago, a former Maryland Libertarian Party candidate called to let me know that he is going to run for the same race in 2020 as a Republican. I thanked him for having the courtesy to let me know and asked him why he was planning on running as a Republican. He replied that…
There was a video montage made a few years back that showed several shaggy haired homeless people sit down in a hair stylist’s chair. Armed with a comb and shears the stylists got to work and the transformation was nothing short of magical. As hair fell to the ground, the person beneath began to shine…
It is difficult to know what the fallout of the COVID-19 crisis is going to be, especially since the toll in human life is, at this point, unknowable. The response has generally been to quarantine people at home and bring their daily lives, including work, to a dead stop. To mitigate the economic pain this…
The Libertarian Party of California’s Bylaws have completed their work for proposals that will be made at the 2020 Convention in Los Angeles over the President’s Day weekend, February 14-17, 2020. Per the Bylaws the report is required to be completed 70 days prior to the convention and posted to the State’s website 60 days…
We are now well into summer and we have some really exciting events coming up that I want to share! This weekend will be the 10th Annual Southern California Conference which will be held at Geezers in Santa Fe Springs on July 20th from 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. and feature several liberty minded speakers. …
We have some great news to share coming out of our convention, which took place in Concord, California, April 5-7, 2019. The convention was a huge success! All told, we raised approximately $25,000 during the convention and this is the first convention in at least ten years in which the Party had more money in…
How to organize a Libertarian protest for tax day this April LPC 2019 convention speaker Jon Coupal, president of Sacramento-based Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, had an op-ed published in the Orange County Register on March 31, explaining findings from a recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California that “‘taxuration’ may have finally arrived…
LP California Chair Honor “Mimi” Robson makes a persuasive case in a recent op-ed, showing California voters why the Libertarian Party is the alternative for fiscally responsible and socially accepting voters — especially for Republicans who feel the GOP in California has abandoned its stated values. The op-ed was published in the 11 papers of the…
State convention kicks off Friday in Concord by K. Brent Olsen It’s almost here! This Friday through Sunday, April 5–7, 2019, the Libertarian Party of California (LPC) will be hosting its annual convention in Concord, California, at the Crowne Plaza hotel. This promises to be an exciting event, with more than 20 excellent guest speakers,…
Next Libertarian outreach to future statesmen is April 27 by Lawrence Samuels After years of organizing LP outreach tables at the Junior State of America (JSA) conventions in northern California, at our Nov. 17 event, I was as amazed as ever at these high school students’ intelligence and how up to speed they are on…
The Libertarian Party of Santa Clara County responded quickly to a mayoral memo threatening the civil right to self-defense in the City of San Jose. The party issued a press release and followed it up by having an op-ed by Chair Jennifer Imhoff-Dousharm published in a local news outlet, San Jose Inside. Following is the…
How to table intentionally during a non-election year We have entered an off-cycle year. Have opponents of the Libertarian Party stopping their recruiting efforts? No — and we mustn’t, either. Odd years are a prime time to dive in to outreach events! Everyone is a bit calmer now that the election is over—that goes for…
Curing the post-election blues by Nick Smith We went through two intense election cycles in 2018. With the noteworthy exception of Sup. Jeff Hewitt’s victory in Riverside County, neither cycle produced good results for liberty in San Francisco or California. Facing the ballot results can be discouraging, to say the least. Measures that we had devoted…
The California Libertarian Activist invites Libertarian candidates in California to provide statements about their candidacy for our members and subscribers. In 2018, the LP of California has one candidate for U.S. Senate, who provides the following statement.* Derrick Michael Reid I am a Californian for all Californians, a moderate and a problem solver, seeking to…
by Aubrey Freedman In December, members and activists of the the LP of San Francisco started to gather signatures for two initiatives circulating statewide to qualify for the November 2018 election. The initiatives each need at least 585,407 valid signatures to appear before the voters, and their deadlines are coming up this spring. The proposed…
Tremendous resources are available to activists, candidates, and campaign volunteers of the LP of California, as an affiliate of the national Libertarian Party. Many of the tools are easily accessible at the web site LPAction.org, managed by Andy Burns, the LNC’s state affiliate development specialist. Here we feature LP communicator Michael Cloud’s advice for quickly…
The California Libertarian Activist invites Libertarian candidates in California to provide statements about their candidacy for our members and subscribers. Governor In 2018, the LP of California has two Libertarian candidates for governor: Zoltan Istvan and Nikolas Wildstar, who provided the following statements.* Zoltan Istvan Zoltan Istvan is often considered the world’s leading transhumanist and…